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- Carl Adamshick, closing lines to “Fluency,” from Curses and Wishes: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2011)
That is why I fear the uses of language
and love
that comes and undresses itself
like an autumn tree. I see her suffering
because she trusted. I see her staring at her arms,
astonished at how loss
can have the same weight as an infant.
- Carl Adamshick, closing lines to “Fluency,” from Curses and Wishes: Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 2011)